mike,
my van always runs fine until the tranny and assoc. paraphenalia starts to
proverbially head south.
after the tranny is rebuilt, the problem goes away for another one or two
thousand miles, then starts up again after one of my incredible "poison gas
moments" (read as a huge burnout in first and second producing a nice sized
cloud of rubber fumes).  it is truly awe inspiring to see a 2 ton vehicle
do that, but i digress.

in my opinion, your transmission is starting to go, and you should get it
looked at.
might not be the tranny, and could also be a ground that is going bad on
the tranny mount, or a bad tranny mount causing binding in the system. i dunno.

oh well, thats my $.02 worth.

peace, out.
-suds

Sudhir H. Desai desa4622@yahoo.com
ICQ: 8255956            AOLim: rawsuds
1984 Vanagon Z34        1996 Jetta (soon to be race ready)

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